[opensuse] New ATI fglrx driver version - supports 10.2

2006-12-13 Thread Sorin Peste
http://ati.de/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html The release notes page is not up yet. The following is from their RSS feed. NEW FEATURES: (1) Xorg 7.2 RC2/openSUSE 10.2 Support (2) ATI Radeon X1650 Support ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) The ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 is now being properly identified

[opensuse] D-Bus segfaults

2007-01-28 Thread Sorin Peste
# service dbus start Starting D-BUS daemonstartproc: signal catched /usr/bin/dbus-daemon: Segmentation fault # /etc/init.d/dbus start Starting D-BUS daemonstartproc: signal catched /usr/bin/dbus-daemon: Segmentation fault Yesterday the D-Bus service decided it was going to segfault when startin

Re: [opensuse] [solved] D-Bus segfaults

2007-01-29 Thread Sorin Peste
On 1/29/07, Michael Schueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 schrieb Sorin Peste: > Yesterday the D-Bus service decided it was going to segfault when > starting; it was running smooth before that. Other dependent > services like NetworkManager als

[opensuse] ZMD is ignoring me

2007-02-08 Thread Sorin Peste
Well, not _totally_ ignoring me - I can shutdown / restart it just fine using the service command... But any rug command like 'rug ping' or 'rug sl' hangs... and remains that way. zen-updater only displays 'Loading services / catalogs / preferences' and 'Getting update list' messages. This has be

Re: [opensuse] ZMD is ignoring me

2007-02-08 Thread Sorin Peste
Hans van der Merwe wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:32 +0200, Sorin Peste wrote: > >> Well, not _totally_ ignoring me - I can shutdown / restart it just fine >> using the service command... But any rug command like 'rug ping' or 'rug >> sl' hangs...

[opensuse] Run a server as daemon w/ openSUSE

2007-09-08 Thread Sorin Peste
Hello, My google-fu seems to be weak today 'cause I can't find a good answer to this problem. I have a server program. [ start] starts the server, [ stop] stops it. I want to make it run as a daemon on an openSUSE 10.2 installation, so it will start / exit cleanly. Bonus: - running it as a

Re: [opensuse] Run a server as daemon w/ openSUSE [solved]

2007-09-08 Thread Sorin Peste
Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2007 11:27:59 Sorin Peste wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My google-fu seems to be weak today 'cause I can't find a good answer to >> this problem. >> >> I have a server program. [ start] starts th

[opensuse] YaST firewall: restrict incoming based on source address

2007-05-09 Thread Sorin Peste
Hi, I want to open a TCP port, but restrict access based on a list of source IP addresses. Can this be accomplished by using the YaST Firewall module? (I couldn't find anything for this). If not, what's the recommended way of doing this in 10.2, so that the next time I use YaST to open a port, my

Re: [opensuse] YaST firewall: restrict incoming based on source address

2007-05-09 Thread Sorin Peste
Benji Weber wrote: > On 5/10/07, Sorin Peste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to open a TCP port, but restrict access based on a list of source >> IP addresses. Can this be accomplished by using the YaST Firewall >> module? (I couldn't

Re: [opensuse] Why are Novell guys closing perfectly valid bugs as WONTFIX due to their laziness ?

2007-05-12 Thread Sorin Peste
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > On 5/12/07, Richard Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Provide updated/improved icons, so it is easy to patch. > Did you read the bug report ? Look at the gray-background. > The updated icons exist, but are not rendered correctly somehow... (In > Yast) > Like somebody comme

[opensuse] OpenSUSE locks up

2007-05-27 Thread Sorin Peste
Hi, I am getting infrequent and seemingly random lock-ups on my openSUSE 10.2 - as in, nothing responds anymore (no ctrl+alt+backspace, nothing) and the only solution is a computer reboot. How do I go about diagnosing this problem? I am using KDE. Thanks, Sorin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE locks up

2007-05-27 Thread Sorin Peste
James Knott wrote: > Sorin Peste wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am getting infrequent and seemingly random lock-ups on my openSUSE >> 10.2 - as in, nothing responds anymore (no ctrl+alt+backspace, nothing) >> and the only solution is a computer reboot. How do I go

[opensuse] Kxkb: using the keyboard to switch between layouts

2007-06-09 Thread Sorin Peste
I have two keyboard layouts enabled in the KDE keyboard tool and I want to be able to switch between them by using some keyboard combination (for example, CTRL+Shift). I've fiddled with Switching Options and the xkb options but no matter what options I set, I can't switch via the keyboard, only by

Re: [opensuse] Kxkb: using the keyboard to switch between layouts

2007-06-09 Thread Sorin Peste
Mark Goldstein wrote: > On 6/9/07, Sorin Peste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have two keyboard layouts enabled in the KDE keyboard tool and I want >> to be able to switch between them by using some keyboard combination >> (for example, CTRL+Shift). I've fiddle

[opensuse] White screen with Beryl

2007-07-23 Thread Sorin Peste
Hi, I've been trying to get Beryl working with openSUSE 10.2 but I haven't had much success. To set it up I basically followed http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl - and I've tried both AIGLX and just plain nVidia drivers. Here's what happens: GNOME - Beryl tries to start at login, but after about 20 se

Re: [opensuse] White screen with Beryl

2007-07-25 Thread Sorin Peste
On 7/24/07, Hans van der Merwe wrote: I have (on friends machine) - but uninstall all that and install the new Compiz-Fusion, its the first efforts of the new merged Beryl and Compiz group. Works great on nVidia and AIGLX. Its even fast enough now to run all day on my crappy onboard Intel on my

[opensuse] AIGLX on openSUSE

2006-11-14 Thread Sorin Peste
I'm writing to ask about AIGLX support in openSUSE 10.1 and 10.2. According to an older e-mail on opensuse-factory (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-08/msg00460.html), this is not planned; however, the German wiki has a HOWTO for setting up AIGLX (http://de.opensuse.org/AIGLX). I cou

[opensuse] KDE updates change shutdown permissions

2006-11-17 Thread Sorin Peste
It's been three times now that an update to some KDE packages has changed the line DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="all" to DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="root" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. This makes the system display a prompt for the root password every time I want to shutdown. I don't know exactl

Re: [opensuse] KDE updates change shutdown permissions

2006-11-17 Thread Sorin Peste
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Sorin Peste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-18-06 00:32]: > >> It's been three times now that an update to some KDE packages has >> changed the line >> >> DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="all" >> >> to >> >

[opensuse] Package not found - on wrong media

2006-11-25 Thread Sorin Peste
' Transaction failed: Need media 1: File ./i586/kdegraphics3-postscript-3.5.5-22.2.i586.rpm not found on media: file:/ ' This is what I get when trying to update a bunch of packages via zen-updater. My KDE repo is a mirror of the openSUSE service and is located at ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors

[opensuse] Re: Package not found - on wrong media

2006-11-30 Thread Sorin Peste
Sorin Peste wrote: > ' Transaction failed: Need media 1: File > ./i586/kdegraphics3-postscript-3.5.5-22.2.i586.rpm not found on media: > file:/ ' > > This is what I get when trying to update a bunch of packages via > zen-updater. My KDE repo is a mirror of the openSUSE

[opensuse] Re: Package not found - on wrong media

2006-12-03 Thread Sorin Peste
Sorin Peste wrote: > Sorin Peste wrote: > >> ' Transaction failed: Need media 1: File >> ./i586/kdegraphics3-postscript-3.5.5-22.2.i586.rpm not found on media: >> file:/ ' >> >> This is what I get when trying to update a bunch of packages via

[opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 RC1 upgrade stories

2006-12-05 Thread Sorin Peste
I was wondering how many people tried upgrading their Suse 10.x to 10.2 RC1 since it came out (as opposed to doing a fresh install). I'm thinking of doing the same but after botching the upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 I'm a little circumspect. Anyone got success / horror stories they want to share? T

Re: [opensuse] Rug removed itself?

2007-02-17 Thread Sorin Peste
Felix Miata wrote: > My last several 10.2 updates I did as follows: > > # rug ref; rug up > > Now when I try that it just sits there for hours apparently doing nothing. > 'ps -A | grep rug' shows nothing. How do I fix whatever's broken? > Check your Mono version. There is a bug in Mono 1.2.3 kn

[opensuse] Problem with latest mozilla-xulrunner181 package

2007-03-13 Thread Sorin Peste
I tried to update the mozilla-xulrunner181 package via ZMD and it failed ('invalid package'). So I downloaded the RPM from my mirror and tried to do it by hand: # rpm -Uvh /tmp/mozilla-xulrunner181-1.8.1.2-14.2.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%]

[opensuse] Installing 10.2 but keeping my files

2007-03-27 Thread Sorin Peste
Hi, After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install while keeping all my /home files (they are on a separate partition). But I can't seem to get the installer to leave that partition alone. My 80-gig hard disk

Re: [opensuse] Installing 10.2 but keeping my files

2007-03-29 Thread Sorin Peste
On 3/28/07, David Bolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Sorin Peste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >Hi, > >After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to >upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 in

[opensuse] Does zypper detect new package versions?

2007-03-29 Thread Sorin Peste
In my 10.1 days I got used to working with ZMD, which had more than its share of problems, but also was able to tell me when new versions of installed packages became available in the repositories. I decided to drop ZMD in favor of zypper in 10.2, and either I am doing something wrong or it can't